Australian Melolonthini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae): a sixth species of Pseudholophylla Blackburn, 1911, and notes on the other known species
Author
Hutchinson, Paul M.
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development WA (Quarantine WA), Locked Bag 69, Welshpool DC, Western Australia 6986, Australia.
Author
Allsopp, Peter G.
Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Queensland 4101, Australia.
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Pseudholophylla cavifrons
(
Lea, 1919
)
(
Figs. 9
,
17
)
Paralepidiota cavifrons
Lea, 1919: 186
.
Pseudholophylla cavifrons
:
Britton 1978: 34
, Figs. 100–102, 274F;
Weir
et al.
2019
: Figs.
31.165
–31.166
, Plate 64K;
Allsopp 2020b: 476
, Figs. 60–62.
Type series.
Holotype
♂
, by original designation.
QUEENSLAND
.
Chillagoe
[
17.15°S
,
144.52°E
]; in
SAM
[examined].
Additional material examined.
1♂
,
Chillagoe
, in
ANIC
register number 25-039401-147
;
1♂
,
Chillagoe
, Clark, in
ANIC
register number 25-039401-148
;
1♂
,
6 km
SE of
Chillagoe
,
26.xi.1981
,
J. Balderson
, in
ANIC
register number 25-039401-149
.
Diagnosis of males.
Body
21–22 mm
long. Colour pale reddish brown. Lamella of antennomere 4 approximately three-quarters length of lamella of antennomere 5. Maxillary palp with apical palpomere broad, with an elongate, depressed dull area on upper surface. Pronotum with greatest width 1.6x mid length; anterior margin without defined margins towards anterior angles, with a narrow, raised posterior margin most clearly defined across the middle. Parameres (
Fig. 9
) with apices transverse, dorsal margin sinuate concavely, ventral margin concave arcuate and apically broadened in lateral view, apical third very constricted in ventral view.
Distribution
(
Fig. 17
). Known only from the
type
locality and nearby; the area has a Köppen-Geiger climate of Aw (savanna).